Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-05-26
FARM NOTES.

! Plants do better when not wateret
often, but copiously.
It is claimed sorrel can be eradicatet
from fields by the generous application
of unleached wood ashes.
Good onion seed, planted early and
well in good rich soil, well MANFRED, Ii
almost certain to produce a large yield i
properly cultivated.
By using comb foundation the labor O.
the bees may be materially lessened, as i
requires as much work to produce wax a!
honey.
| Sow kale and radish early and put in {
| few early rose potatoes as a first crop fo1
| family use. Mustard may also be sowr
early for green's.
In pruning very young pear trees en-
courage growth of wood in proper direc
tions, instead of fruit production at the
expense of development.
The sulky, or riding pillow, on which the
plowman is carried around the field while
the work is done, revolutionizes all the
old ideas about blowing.
In planting dwarf peas leave sufficient
ground for several SUGGESTIONS of crops
as the dwarf varieties usually ripen all
their pods at the same time.
An experienced bee-keeper states that
if honey be placed while hot in glass
jars aud the jars sealed, the honey will
not candy, which is a dific ulty to be
avoided.
Peach trees are being planted extern
sively in New Jersey, where they have not
been grown before for many years, and
the prospect is that peach-growing in
that State will be q success.
If you are troubled with black lice,
wash the tree thoroughly with soft soap
made into suds. And, by the way, it
will always pay to carry the water on wash
days and apply around the fruit trees.
Young chicks will eat wheat when they
are two weeks old, and they should be
given plenty of it. When they droop
from rapid feathering they should be al
lowed a small proportion of meat daily.
There is no advantage in having early
plants unless they be well MANFRED and
forced in growth after being transplant
ed. The object of starting the plants in
hotbeds is to have them ready for the
ground when frost shall have passed,
and if they be not then well managed to
maturity the lab Or bestowed in the begin
ming may be lost.
Young pigs will usually commence to
eat when about weeks old, and the more
attractive the portion put within their
reach the quicker they will learn to make
a full feed. If they can have little fresh
milk at the start so much the better, but
by common consent skim milk is counted
sufficient to meet piggy's notion. With
milk as a starter they Will soon take to
slop made of mill feed.
At the present price of pure bred dairy
COWS few farmers feel able to buy them,
unless they intend to combine with dairy
ing the business of fine stock raising.
The dairyman will, therefore, find the
plan of starting with selected grade COWS,
and pure-bred bull or good pedigree,
best adapted to a limited purse. A herd
of three-fourths or seventies Holistein or
Jersey grade COWS can thus be built up in
a few years.
In buying eggs for Matching it is a
good plan to buy two or more settings
at time; they can be bought cheaper
the express is little more than one setting
If all be set at the same time they can be
given to less number of hens than il
took to hatch them, and in this was some
of the hens can be kept to serve their
second term; and best of all, if you be
successful, in the fall you will have nice
little flock, all of the same strain and
age.